Lead Business Consultant

Business Consultant - Operations

Location: Netherlands or Belgium or Italy

Who we are?

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general.   

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.  

SimCorp is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.  

Why this role is important to us

At SimCorp, we assist some of the biggest financial institutions in the world to be fruitful by simplifying their investments, accounting, and operations. SimCorp continuously enhances its portfolio of offerings to remain at the forefront of industry technology and trends. The main purpose of the role is to contribute to the fruitful support and maintenance of SimCorp clients in at least one process domain in the Accounting and Operations Service Line.

As a Business Consultant, you will be part of a team in Professional Services to support our clients by providing best-practice market solutions and deploying services related to the usage of SimCorp Dimension and beyond. You will work closely with local and global teams within SimCorp. 

You will be working in a team, implementing the solution or servicing our clients in their post-implementation phases.

As part of the team, you will be using your coordination skills and know-how to closely collaborate with Client stakeholders and SimCorp internal stakeholders in providing Investment solutions.,

As part of your induction, you will be ‘hands-on’ in our software system and attend the three-week SimCorp Dimension® Academy. 

What you will be responsible for

• Contributing to all aspects of SimCorp Dimension implementation projects
• Advise on process improvements through better use of SimCorp Dimension and you contribute to improving and documenting best practices for implementations.
• Mapping to SimCorp Dimension functions and processes; designing and configuring a customized solution or enhancing best practices
• Assisting the client in developing an overall test strategy, and test plans, and in the execution of test cases
• Facilitation workshops to gather requirements for new and existing clients
• Mentoring, coaching, and enabling colleagues to secure the project deliveries
• Continuously expand your knowledge of our solutions and standards

What we value

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above.

How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at :

• Finance knowledge:
• Experience as a Business Analyst or Consultant from banks, asset managers, insurers or consulting firms in the back office or in valuation
• Excellent know-how in trade processing from the banking, asset management or insurance environment (Reconciliation, Settlement (SWIFT), Corporate Actions, Cash & Securities and Collateral Management)
• Efficient consulting and leadership skills
• Experience in software implementation projects
• Enthusiasm to learn and use new software
• Desire to act as a mentor and coach to less experienced colleagues and work in a collaborative environment
• Good English as it is our corporate language and is used in all communications. Another European language is also appreciated (French, Spanish, Italian, German or else)

Benefits

Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work and work-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. And opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.  

Next step

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photos, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavour to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions, you are welcome to contact Azeta GUITI, Senior Talent Acquisition Partner. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you in discovering the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks. 

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

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